Sorry for the double post.
Just read The Name of the Wind and loved it. Will highly recommend it to people that like fantasy.
It's the debut novel by Patrick Rothfuss, and the book has gotten a ton of praises. It's the first book of the Kingkiller Chronicle (probably a trilogy), at the moment waiting for the second book.
The main character is an interesting one, and the structure of the novel also makes interesting since it's not the usual. The story starts in 3rd person, then shifts to 1st person as the meat of the story is like an autobiography of the main character. We keep getting Interludes that bring us back to the present. So in all it's a story within a story. But the present has it's own plot, so it's not just a retelling of the character's life.
I find the characters to be good and realistic, and really like how the magic system in here works, though we haven't gotten to the meat of it.
Anyone here read it?